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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the bashing-Windows dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft has announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is coming to Windows Server.

Microsoft's adding it to Windows Server for the same reasons it added it to Windows: it wants developers to have whatever tools they prefer at their disposal.

Sysadmins are also on Redmond's mind, it says. "If you're a server engineer that needs to run node.js, Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash scripts or other tools that expect Linux behaviors, environment or filesystem-layout, the ability to install and run Linux with WSL expands the tools at your disposal on Windows Server."

Redmond snuck WSL into Windows Server Insider Build 16237 without including it in the announcement. It's now issued instructions on how to install it.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday August 11 2017, @03:26AM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday August 11 2017, @03:26AM (#552091) Journal

    It is useful information for those times you have to deal with the pile of shit. Being able to easily port software to MS-Win helps other projects. However if MS does any shit it will be "sorry your operating system is broken, upgrade to free Unix right now".

    This also indicates Microsoft feels the pressure from free Unix hard.

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Friday August 11 2017, @04:45AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 11 2017, @04:45AM (#552120) Journal

    This also indicates Microsoft feels the pressure from free Unix hard.

    I agree on that point. However, they've been feeling it since the 1990's and have effective counter measuers. Lately, they've been able to keep chumps on Windoze by tricking them into running real systems as a guest because they still have the burden of Windoze underneath. That albatross keeps them from having time or ability to work with the guest OS.

    Because M$ provides a defective experience all around, more so for anything non-M$ on top of Windoze, their usual response to such defects is to blame the other systems and suggest a purely Windoze environment as the obvious solution. So I see articles like these as a measure to keep people and businesses, and especially schools, from leaving Windoze at all as it remains the host system underneath. They're really scared that anyone will find out that it is possible to run anything else and even more scared that it would actually happen.

    If a real OS gets run "on bare metal" then actual comparisons can be made and M$ will fail hard. As long as M$ can keep the real OS as a guest on a Windoze host, they have any number of tricks and distractions to block progress.

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